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Genesis 3:1-7
Genesis 3:1-7
The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public Domain
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our first parents, to draw them into sin, and which proved fatal to
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1. Not the mere serpent.
2. A higher power of evil.
3. This higher power a person.
4. The leader of the fallen angels.
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